About 17 hours earlier police had been notified by probation officials that Jenkins had cut her court-ordered monitoring bracelet and fled with a 17-year-old boy who had also been reported as a runaway, Bell said.

Bell said the two apparently spent the night in an abandoned Middle Falls paper mill before one of his officers spotted them around 7:45 a.m. Friday on Route 29 near the Washington County Fairgrounds.

The boy was caught shortly after that, but several police agencies searched nearby woods for Jenkins for nearly two more hours.

Bell said Jenkins was being held on home detention in connection with misdemeanor charges of criminal mischief and making graffiti in the village of Greenwich but added that she had at least one other more serious charge pending.

Jenkins was re-arraigned Friday morning on the misdemeanor charges and sent to the Washington County jail, Bell said, adding that the decision whether to levy additional charges for damaging the ankle bracelet will fall to probation officials.